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Ring
Greek
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Credit Line
Gift of H. P. Kidder
Accession Number81.136
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CollectionsEurope, Jewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Rings
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 285.
DescriptionThe bezel has a winged lion (?), or a ketos with lion's forepart, engraved in intaglio. Much corroded and encrusted with green.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Henry P. Kidder Collection (according to MFA archival card: from Crete; purchased by W. J. Stillman); gift of Henry P. Kidder to MFA, September 27, 1881